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Thursday, 16 January 2025

Trending Now: The long-term trends that turned the L.A. fires into a catastrophe

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In Altadena, California, climate change collided with decades of development to produce a new kind of urban conflagration — one that reached deep into a community that was previously thought safe.

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Wednesday, 15 January 2025

Health Alert: Corrected link: FDA bans controversial red dye used in bubblegum, candy and fruit cocktail that is linked to cancer in rats

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The Food and Drug Administration's action affects red dye No. 3, which was approved for permanent use more than 50 years ago. Studies have shown high doses could cause cancer in rats, but the agency maintains there is no evidence that ingesting the coloring causes cancer in humans. A previous alert linked to the wrong story. This alert has been corrected.

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Health Alert: FDA bans controversial red dye used in bubblegum, candy and fruit cocktail that is linked to cancer in rats

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Tuesday, 14 January 2025

Climate Alert: Biden establishes new national monuments in California, making more than 850,000 acres off limits to development

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President Joe Biden signed proclamations Tuesday creating the 624,000-acre Chuckwalla National Monument and the 224,000-acre Sáttítla Highlands National Monument. The move bans oil and gas drilling, mining and other industrial activities on these vast swaths of public land, which several Native American tribes have considered sacred for thousands of years.

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Why the L.A. fires became so bad so quickly

In Los Angeles' chaparral-covered ecosystem, wildfires in the mountains are an annual ritual. But when those fires leaped into residential neighborhoods last week, the city suddenly found itself in survival mode.

A critical question became why the largest city in California, a state that has spent years fortifying itself against wildfires, couldn't stop the fires this time. State regulations required residents in high-risk neighborhoods to create vegetation-free buffers around their homes. California had invested billions of dollars to reduce the amount of woody fuel for fires to burn. It boasted the largest firefighting force in the nation.

Yet within a few days, decades-old communities and beloved landmarks were gone, and residents were left asking why.

Experts said several key factors — including urban sprawl, a resistance to clearing vegetation around homes and a water system that's not designed to combat multiple major blazes at once — left L.A. exposed to disaster.

As climate change fuels record heat, leaving the hillsides primed for wildfires to grow swiftly into massive conflagrations, here are the factors that led to catastrophe.